Editing a book is a rewarding experience, but also an endeavor which steals a lot of time—
especially your personal time; even more, you can hardly know everything from the …

Vehicular Networks are receiving a lot of attention due to the wide variety of services they
can provide. Their applications range from safety and crash avoidance to Internet access …

With the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and wireless
embedded sensing devices into modern vehicles, Intelligent Transport System (ITS) …

Vehicular communications are now the dominant mode of transferring information between
automobiles. One of the most promising applications of vehicular communications is the …

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been quite a hot research area in the last few
years. Due to their unique characteristics such as high dynamic topology and predictable …

Modern society faces serious problems with transportation systems. Several factors
contribute to the increase of the severity of these problems. One factor is the concentration of …

A vehicular ad hoc network consists of smart vehicles on the road and provides
communication services among nearby vehicles or with roadside infrastructure. It is …

Among civilian communication systems, vehicular networks emerge as one of the most
convincing and yet most challenging instantiations of the mobile ad hoc networking …

The message routing in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is an attractive and promising
area for research. These networks do not have a central coordination, the nodes are mobile …

Vehicular networks are very likely to be deployed in the coming years and thus become the
most relevant form of mobile ad hoc networks. In this paper, we address the security of these …